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Los Angeles:Actor-singer Jamie Foxx came under fire on Monday from LGBT-youth group The Trevor Project for "insensitive comments" he made at an awards show about reality star Bruce Jenner and reports of his decision to transition to a woman...

On Sunday, a young couple was almost abducted and robbed by two 'policemen' at Peddar Road in Mumbai, according to a report inHindustan Times.The story has a twist though.The 'policemen'were in realitysmall-timecriminals.Narrating their tale to the r...

For India's female badminton champion Saina Nehwal, newly crowned world number one, it's been a tough climb to the top in a patriarchal country that has long neglected women athletes.Although badminton is keenly followed in India, cricket has long be...

Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth rounded up a brilliant Sunday for Indian badminton winning their respective $275,000 India Open Super Series titles at the Siri Fort Sports Complex here.Women's singles top seed Saina Nehwal trumped former World Cham...

Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth rounded up a brilliant Sunday for Indian badminton winning their respective $275,000 India Open Superseries titles at the Siri Fort Sports Complex here.Women's singles top seed Saina Nehwal trumped former World Champ...

London: Actress Katrina Kaif has became the latest Indian to be featured at the Madame Tussauds museum. The actress unveiled her 150,000-pound life-size wax statue yesterday and while many have congratulated her on being chosen over her competitors l...

Indias foreign exchange reserves shot up to an all-time high of $339.99 billion, after a $4.26 billion increase over the week ended 20 March, driven by a rise in core currency assets, as per RBI data released today.Total reserves had dropped by $2.06...

In 2006, when India lost to South Africa in a series of one day matches, cricket fans in India went on a rampage. Mohammed Kaifs house in Allahabad was attacked and the effigies of the players and Greg Chappell, the coach, were burnt in MS Dhonis hom...

A tearful former Olympic swimming champion, Park Tae-hwan of South Korea, offered an impassioned public apology Friday, four days after receiving an 18-month ban for failing a doping test.Park, who won South Korea's only ever swimming gold in the 400...

To promote the 'Make in India' initiative ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trip to Germany, the government has bought merchandise like key-chains and coffee mugs from private companies in bulk.The merchandise will be decorated with 22 carat go...

By Dileep PremachandranBack in 2003, Indias World Cup campaign consisted of eight straight wins bookended by crushing defeats to Australia, one of them in the final at The Wanderers. Almost exactly 12 years on, Indias hitherto blemish-free tournament...

By Dileep PremachandranBack in 2003, Indias World Cup campaign consisted of eight straight wins bookended by crushing defeats to Australia, one of them in the final at The Wanderers. Almost exactly 12 years on, Indias hitherto blemish-free tournament...

Rising Indian shuttler HSPrannoy scripted the biggest upset of the day at the YonexSunrise Indian Super Series, stunning top seed and World No.2Jan Jorgensen of Denmark to enter the quarterfinals of the USD275,000 event.Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srika...

LONDON (Reuters) - Gold rallied to a 3-1/2 week high on Thursday and silver rose nearly 3 percent as escalating tensions in the Middle East knocked stocks and the dollar and drove investors into assets viewed as lower risk, such as bullion and German...

India are crickets glamour international team much like Brazil in football, or the New Zealand All Blacks in rugby union. Their enormous pull often leads to a certain amount of derision worldwide, with cynics skeptical of Indias political weight and ...

The ADB has projected growth in India to be 7.8% for 2015, which though lower than the 8.1-8.5% projected by the Government of India for FY16, is still impressive as it does mean that it will come over growth rates of 6.9% and 7.4% respectively, in F...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Most Asian share markets were set to end a volatile session with modest gains on Tuesday, after a measure of Chinese factory activity dented sentiment by unexpectedly dropping to an 11-month low.Financial spreadbetters expected soft...

Park Tae-hwan's hopes of competing in the 2016 Rio Games were put in jeopardy as the South Korean Olympic swimming champion was handed an 18-month ban after a failed drug test, swimming's governing body said on Monday.Park, a two-time world champion ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar fell further on Monday, adding to its steepest weekly drop in 3-1/2 years after the Federal Reserve indicated last week that a rate hike is likely to come later rather than sooner, again helping drive up oil prices and...

LONDON (Reuters) - Caution about Greece ahead of a meeting between its prime minister and Germany's Angela Merkel prompted a nervy start to the week for European markets on Monday.Shares and currencies in Asia, in contrast, had rallied on easy moneta...